The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-07-01
SOUTHERN GL.EANINes.

business every day, sleeps rs sod as a
babe, and can eat at any hour of the day
or night
Richard Smith, the little negro boy who
shot to death a baby that he was EN-
ployed to nurse, at Memphis, Tenn, was
acquitted. The father of the prisoner
sWore that he was only seven years old
and the jury could not find it in theil
hearts to convict him. The little fellow
slept soundly while the judge was charg
ing the jury, but cried bitterly when The
order was given for his discharge; he
thought discharge meant the gallows.
The Little Rock q Alexandria railroad
has been organized in Louisiana, with
s., 800, 000 capital stock. The projected
line is over 240 miles long, 13J miles being
in Arkansas. It extends from Little
Rock, Ark, to a point on the line be-
tween the States Of Arkansas and Louisi =
ana, near to the dividing line between
range 13 and IA west, and in a southern
direction through Louisiana to Alexan-
dria.
A phenomenon was lately Witnessed by
some Greenville (Ala.) men who were
fishing at a neighboring pond. whirl-
wind or small cyclone, about fifteen feet
wide, passed over the pond, forcing the
water up for about two or two and one
half feet for its entire width, then twist
ing it into a pillar about foot in diam
eter. This stem was perpendicular for
about six feet, when it gradually widened
until height of about sixty or seventy
feet was attained. The water then fell in
a spray. Those who Witnessed it say
that the whirlwind formed huge goblet
of the water, and it was one of the pret-
test sights they ever saw.
A Palatka (Fla.) man dug on his place
a few days ago cassava root tn at meas
ured nine feet in length and seven inches
in diameter
Out of the S20 delegates in the National
Democratic convention of next year the
Southern States will have 306.
A woman at Sparta, Ga, recently had
seventeen teeth extracted in one day and
died the following night.
There have been fewer murders in
North Carolina so far this year than for
any six months in several years past
The character Of houses in Florida may
be inferred from the statement that one
Orlando contractor has built twenty one
cottages in nine weeks.
The large residence of NJ V. Monarch,
about a quarter of a mile from Owens
boro, KY, was burned a few days ago.
Half the household goods were saved.
The loss was about SO, 0O0 with Sc, 600 in
surance.
Near Watkins vile, Ga, the other day, a
large pine tree which the bees have oc-
-in it was found a hollow thirty eight feet
long and eight inches in diameter COM
pletely filled with honey.
DR. Marshall Griggs, who recently
graduated with high honors from the
dental department of the University of
Tennessee. died few days ago in Nash
vile.
A G. Norton aud his son, Richard, shot
and killed ]. L. Hamlin, of AbbeyviIle, s.
c., few days since, at Parlors Station,
on the Eutauville railroad. Both were
| arrested. The cause of the affray is not
stated.
The Capital City Street railway at
Montgomery, Ala, has begun operating
it's cars by the electric motor system.
The company has four lines, aggregating
fifteen miles, much of it double track.
The speed attained is from ten to fifteen
miles an hour, one motor pulling three
loaded cars.
Fire broke out in the upper portion of
F. Fredericlzs on's drug store, in New
/ Orleans, few days ago. The fire was
confined to the drug store, the two upper
stories of which were burned. Loss,
/ S25, 900; believed to be fully covered by
Insurance.
The Decatur (Ala.) Natural Gas and
! Oil Company have commenced boring
I their well. They have passed their 100
! foot mark and are boring rapidly. The
/ company controls Is, 900 acres of land.
! Work has commenced on the new hotel al
/ Decatur, and will be rapidly pushed for
! ward
/ The latest news from Rowan County
( XIV, is to the effect that peace has at last
/ settled permanently within her borders
! and no further trouble is anticipated
/ The disposal of the Toiliver gang is re
garded with the greatest satisfaction,
! and is considered as the viDdication o1
the law at the hands Of an outraged peO
/ pie acting by the authority of the Gov
/ ernOr of Kentucky.
/ At Tangipahoa, La, a few nights ago
I Justice of the Peace Varuado was shot
/ aud killed by S. r. Daughn, whom the
magistrate had recently fined for carry
/ ing concealed weapons The tragedy oc
! CURED in a drin6ing g-saloon. The mur
J derer was removes to New Orleans tC
avoid lynching.
/ No crime in North Carolina since Wal
/ ter Bingham murdered Miss burlington
! has created any thing like the sensation
/ caused by the assassination of Pau
! Liuclze, while in bed at night, by Lawyer
( Potts. The crime was committed ir
Beaufort County. Potts is in Jail, as is
/ also Susan F. Ltncke, wife of the mur.
dered man. Interest in the case is in
tense.
! Colonel Primus Jones. the great cotton
| grower of Southwest Georgia.. has sold
| his first 5ale' this year to Cole, SimkiDs
| q Co, ana guarantees to deliver the same
/ between July and l5.
/ MAJOR Seay, a prominent and wealthy
! planter living near Somerville, Tenn.
| ouarreled with one of his negro farm
hands named Maclin, a few days age
over a trivial matter, and during the con
troversy Seay drew his revolver and
| fired, wounding Maclin. The wounded
man has since died, and Seay has been
! arrested, but was released on furnis shing
bail.
! A party OF about fifty unmasked, arm eC
/ men rode into KOsciusko, Miss, a few
nights ago, overpowered the jailer, broke
| open the jail and took James Webb, ;
| white man, out, who was incarcerated OF
the charge of poisoning his wife, ane
I carried him on horseback 10 a trestle OF
! the Canton, Aberdeen q Nashville rail
/ road, about one mile from town, where
I he was hanged with p ow line, which
was tied to the rail on the trestIe.
Crops have rarely looked better.
MTledgevile, Ga, presents her CLAIM
for the chaplet for the oldest woman il
the State, Julia Mitchell, an old negro
I resident of that city, is one hundred and
/ twenty years old, and in apparent good
health. She was one Of Governor Mitch
ellis slaves years ago, and she says she
( remem bers the revolutionary war dis
tfnctly. She has been blind now for sew
eral years. but her memory Of the Ions
ago makes up an interesting converse
I ton.
Judge o. A. Lochrane, one of the mos
emiut.t la. ye-s and sur sts in the South
] died a his aow 5 s = d tn. Ga, a few
( days i. 20. oi heart tsi-esse.
Feas cC "a yellow fever cp.ce.Eic hav'
/ about 81 bside
Two ncgfoe John Wilson an 8ober
4 Tab3rn, vrs u der arrest 1T Q Jrd, n
/ e.. clarge3 W ith hu- nin. ihai ee las
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